I am delighted to report that I have just finished work on the full first draft of a new book: Making Worlds with Crows: A Multispecies Ethics, forthcoming with Columbia University Press in 2018 or 2019. The book is comprised of five chapters, each focused on human/crow relationships in a particular part of the world.…
I’m delighted to announce that our new book is now out: Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations. This collection was co-edited by Deborah Bird Rose, Matthew Chrulew and myself, and published by Columbia University Press. There’s more information, including the table of contents for the book, on the edited collections page of my…
We have now finalised the manuscript for our forthcoming edited collection, Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death and Generations (to be published by Columbia University Press, available in May 2017). More information on the collection is available on the Edited Collections page of my website. The collection has already received glowing endorsements from several fantastic…
This week our new special issue on “Multispecies Studies” appeared in Environmental Humanities. The issue was co-edited by six of us: Thom van Dooren, Ursula Münster, Eben Kirksey, Deborah Bird Rose, Matthew Chrulew and Anna Tsing. The full table of contents is below.
I’m very happy to announce two recent French translations of my writing. The first was published a month or so ago in Jef Klak and is an abridged version of Chapter Four of my book Flight Ways. This is the chapter focused on the whooping cranes and the violent-care of conservation. “Le blues des grues…
This blog post is the text of a discussant paper that I was delighted to deliver at the 2015 meeting of the American Anthropological Association in a panel called Gaia Strikes Back: Feral Landscapes of the Anthropocene. The piece responds to four fantastic, provocative, papers (listed below). It was a pleasure to have the opportunity…
Translocation, captive breeding, somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning), back-breeding, gene and seed banking—the list goes on. Today, there are a whole range of different technologies and techniques aimed at holding on to, or even resurrecting, species that might already be thought of as “lost” in some significant sense. My inclination is not to definitively rule…
